CMT: LIVENESS IN A VIRTUAL WORLD Wednesday 28 May, 19:00 – Ian Hanger Recital Hall Through the Frame Jorja Scott Through the Frame is a short performance video built around an original song, Means to an End. The piece combines live music with layered visuals to explore ideas of self-expression, repetition, and how we experience performance through a screen. The video was filmed on a set designed to feel like a personal, in-between space, not quite a stage, not quite a bedroom. Hanging above the performer are picture frames, which fill with video overlays of earlier performances. These fragmented versions of the self-appear and disappear throughout the song, creating a sense of memory, echo, and presence. Rather than telling a story, the piece focuses on atmosphere. It uses colour, lighting, and minimal movement to highlight quiet moments, plugging in a microphone, playing a chord, sitting still. As the live performance unfolds, the overlays build up around it, creating a layered portrait of the performer from different points in time. The project plays with the feeling of being both present and distant, performing in the moment, but also watching yourself from the outside. It’s about how live performance changes when it’s recorded, reflected back, and viewed as fragments of something that once happened. The idea behind Through the Frame grew from experimenting with the relationship between live presence and digital memory. What started as a simple musical performance gradually became a way to explore how identity can shift when viewed through layers of video, of time, of selfperception. The process of building the set, writing the music, and editing the footage was just as much about discovering the tone of the piece as it was about planning it. The final result is something quiet and reflective and honest.
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